Having beautiful plants and flowers in your lawn, garden and other outdoor living areas adds so much to your home, creating a comfortable atmosphere that you, your friends and family can enjoy. The more nutrient rich your soil is the healthier, fuller and more beautiful your plants and flowers will be.

Fertilizers are expensive and require extra trips to the garden supplies store. Not to mention conventional fertilizer use unnatural chemicals. These chemicals seep into and pollute ground water. This is a major contributing cause of acid rain. Using leaves, branches, weeds and other organic garden scraps to create your own compost is the best way to create nutrient rich all natural and eco friendly food your plants and flowers will love. Organic compost tumblers are easy to set up and use, are extremely affordable and make it easy to turn your garden scraps into the best all natural and organic compost.

April 21, 2010

We cannot help but to make messes and getting things that we used dirty. Cleaning the floors, bathrooms and other areas of the home is a must to prevent bacteria, stains, dirt and dust from accumulating. However the vast majority of conventional chemicals and cleaners that are most commonly used are extremely harmful to your health and to the environment.

The EPA estimated that chemicals found in everyday cleaners are three times more likely to cause cancer then air pollutants. In 2007 a study conducted by the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine found that exposure to cleaning products is responsible for 15% of all asthma cases.Not to mention that if these chemicals are somehow introduce into your body directly they can be life threatening. With little kids or animals around that can be very scary. When these cleaners are used the chemicals evaporate and become trapped in our upper atmosphere, contributing to acid rain and green houses gasses depleting the ozone layer. These chemicals enter streams and ground water causing fish and other wild life to die and for the entire eco system to suffer.

Using environmentally friendly cleaners for your home that use safe all natural and organic ingredients is the best way to keep your home clean and you, your family and the environment safe. There are many cleaning products out there that claim to be eco friendly and safe, but if they do not have the green seal and are certified environmentally friendly and organic then they are not, carrying many of the same hazardous chemicals all the other conventional cleaning products.

According the EPA heating water takes up 30% of a home’s energy costs on average. Coal burning power plants make up roughly 50% or so of the electricity produced in the US. The burning of coal is the number one contributor to green houses gasses causing global warming and harm to the ozone. It is because of this that laws continue to get passed to make the burning of coal less harmful on the environment. While these methods help it is not by much and costs more money which is reflected in your monthly and ever increasing, energy bill. With ever increasing costs of energy both financial as well as environmentally it would be nice to save some money and reduce the amount of electricity you use.

Conventional water heaters are extremely energy inefficient. They are constantly heating the water that is the tank not just when you need it. This take a tremendous amount of energy and is the reason why heating your water takes up such a large percentage of your energy costs. Not to mention that when the water in the tank is gone you have to wait for it to refill and heat up again. Nothing like being the last one in and getting a cold shower.

Tankless water heaters heat water as you use it so not only do you have an endless stream of hot water you also only use the energy needed to heat the water you are using. You do not pay to keep it hot while you are not using it like conventional space water heater. Because of this not only do you not have to ever worry about taking a cold shower they are also 20% more energy efficient then conventional space heaters according to consumer reports.org, saving you money and are much more environmentally friendly.

February 15, 2010

We are hearing more and more all the time about the environment and using fewer natural resources. And it all makes since. Without a healthy planet and its’ resources we would not be able to survive for very long. Finding where to start is another thing. You have your life, bills and everything else. The last thing you can do is add to your expenses and make things more difficult for yourself. For some reason these are things that many people when they think about ways they can start going green. There are number of ways that you can start being more environmentally friendly, that will work just as well if not better and save you money. We recently added http://www.theearthstoreonline.com to our Shopping Network at Easy Place to Shop. They offer environmentally friendly, money saving products such as rain Barrels, Compost bins, and dual flush water saving toilet kits that are easy to install, conserve resources and will save you money. They also provide free information and links to other environmentally friendly sites that will help make it easy for you to start living more green. You can find them in the Garden and Outdoor Décor, Gardening and Landscaping and Water Saving Toilets sections of our Online Shopping Mall. Make sure to also check out the Home and Gardening sections of our Shopping Blog to learn more about this site and their environmentally friendly green products as well as find a cool new way we make Online shopping easy. http://easyplacetoshop.com